Nieuwe onderzoek over de electrostimulatie

[Bixi]

Hoi,

Ik vond het zeer belovend, ik hoop dat iemand in Nederland ook iets mee gaat doen..


Wie zou geïnteresseerd zijn in Nederland voor deze onderzoek?


[QUOTE] [URL="http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-noninvasive ... -282228853"]A new noninvasive method for deep-brain stimulation[/URL]

...Neurologists could also steer the location of deep-brain stimulation in real time, without moving the electrodes, by simply altering the currents. In this way, deep targets could be stimulated for conditions such as Parkinson’s, epilepsy, depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder — without affecting surrounding brain structures.
The researchers are also exploring the possibility of using this method to experimentally treat other brain conditions, such as autism, and for basic science investigations.

Co-author Li-Huei Tsai, director of MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, and researchers in her lab tested this technique in mice and found that they could stimulate small regions deep within the brain, including the hippocampus. [I][B][U]But they were also able to shift the site of stimulation, allowing them to activate different parts of the motor cortex and prompt the mice to move their limbs, ears, or whiskers.[/U][/B][/I]

“We showed that we can very precisely target a brain region to elicit not just neuronal activation but behavioral responses,” says Tsai.

Last year, Tsai showed (open access) that using light to visually induce brain waves of a particular frequency could substantially reduce the beta amyloid plaques seen in Alzheimer’s disease, in the brains of mice...
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